But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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